Dr Joan Espasa Arxer

Dr Joan Espasa Arxer

Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3270
Email
jea20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

  • CS4402 - Constraint Programming
  • CS4303 - Videogames

I also supervise projects at a variety of levels across our school.

Research areas

I am a Lecturer in the AI group. My main research focus lies in Automated Planning, which is a central discipline of Artificial Intelligence. This area studies decision-making in a given environment to reach or optimise a goal. These problems are ubiquitous in industry and science, where they appear in logistics, chemistry or even network security, just to name a few. More concretely, my published work mainly lies in the intersection of Automated Planning, Constraint Satisfaction, Reformulation and applications of logic in computer science.

PhD supervision

  • MustafaAbdelwahed
  • CarlaDavesa Sureda
  • LouisMellac

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Abdelwahed, M. F., Espasa, J., Toniolo, A. & Gent, I. P., 9 Feb 2026. 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  • Abdelwahed, M. F., Meneguzzi, F., Max Piamolini Gusmão, K. & Espasa, J., 9 Feb 2026, p. 1-5. 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  • Open access
    Espasa, J., Gent, I. P., Miguel, I., Nightingale, P., Salamon, A. Z. & Villaret, M., 28 Jan 2025, Proceedings - 2024 IEEE 36th international conference on tools with artificial intelligence (ICTAI 2024). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computer Society, p. 89-95 7 p. 10849509. (Proceedings - International conference on tools with artificial intelligence (ICTAI)).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Open access
    Espasa, J., Miguel, I. J., Nightingale, P., Salamon, A. Z. & Villaret, M., 13 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Constraints. First online, 40 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Taitler, A., Alford, R., Espasa, J., Behnke, G., Fišer, D., Gimelfarb, M., Pommerening, F., Sanner, S., Scala, E., Schreiber, D., Segovia‐Aguas, J. & Seipp, J., 18 Jun 2024, In: AI Magazine. 45, 2, p. 280-296 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Sureda, C. D., Arxer, J. E., Miguel, I. & Auselle, M. V., 2 Sept 2024, ModRef 2024 - the 23rd workshop on constraint modelling and reformulation (ModRef). 17 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Balogh, C., Hoffmann, R. & Espasa Arxer, J., 2 Sept 2024, p. 1-9. 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  • Open access
    Bofill, M., Borralleras, C., Espasa Arxer, J., Martín, G. & Patow, G., 9 Jul 2023. 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  • Abdelwahed, M., Espasa Arxer, J., Toniolo, A. & Gent, I. P., 10 Jul 2023. 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  • Open access
    Espasa Arxer, J., Miguel, I. J., Nightingale, P., Salamon, A. Z. & Villaret, M., 9 Jul 2023.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review